Of course, the Count will not snatch the two children with Annan, "I'll leave it to you." He said nonchalantly, letting his men continue to search the town.

He also owed Annan 50,000 gold coins.

"I'll send you to my territory later, where it's safe and there are many children." Annan continued to speak to Sister Jon.

"Let's not go!" Little Jon, who was sitting in front of him, grabbed the breadcrumbs and gestured: "My sister fights very well!" ”

Great Jon cooperated with the swing of his sword.

Annan believed their words, they had seen the rat corpses in the kitchen, and even adults might not be able to do it.

"Can I touch it?" At this moment, Jon's attention is attracted by Lily and the silly cat who have come together, and his dirty hand reaches out to the silly cat.

The silly cat ran away, and little Jon reached out to Lily with his dirty hand again, but was pulled by Big Jon: "We're too dirty. ”

Lily took the initiative to rub under her dirty hand, causing Jon Jon to let out a "giggle" laugh.

Annan didn't ask their parents, and that wouldn't be pleasant news. After the Jon sisters had eaten their fill, Annan sent them back to Gem City through a portal, and by the way, he improvised the Count's men with fifty muskets.

The Count also wanted fifty pieces of plate armor.

"The plate armor is too heavy."

Annan said that his malnourished men floating at sea could not support dozens of pounds of plate armor, and only gave ten pieces of plate armor to each of the only ten warriors.

They continue on their journey and use the ruins along the way to gradually become proficient in "receiving the legacy". They are dead, but the property left behind will help those who are still alive.

As they got closer to the high city of Solren, the speed of the procession became slower.

Nezumi began to appear frequently, and there were several small rat tides of thousands of nezumi, and the elementals had been involved in the fight two days earlier.

But no survivors were encountered...... Sister Jon was the only one they found alive.

They had a few more towns along the way, but they used to have to take a few more detours, and the Count of Ulmit had no idea of the heritage of those places.

They camped on the riverside, which was only a day's journey from the high city of Solren, and were ready to rest and rush to the high city of Solren.

Annan sat in a tent with Count Ulmit, the count pinching his wine glass—they had turned out a few bottles of wine in a winery's cellar—and of course the nezumi drank, which was probably hidden by the stolen workers.

Annan continued to recount his efforts for the Floating City: "I thought the most expensive thing was the construction of the second Arcane Core and the Gem City, but I didn't expect it to be the Orichalcum ......"

The Orichalcum needed to make a Floating City float with an Arcane Core is enough to buy another Arcane Core...... There is still no purchasing discount.

No one had ever told him that!

Annan couldn't have asked, because they would have said, "You don't even know this?" ”

This can't be blamed on Annan, the people of this world are like common sense knowledge Annan knows nothing, such as succubi, vampires are extremely dangerous...... But that's why Annan was never biased.

A small cup of kindness, a small cup of ignorance, and a small glass of charm -

"Oh, that's a lot—"

The Count exclaimed and put the bottle back, and the glass was almost full.

"It seems that this is a divine signal for me to drink more today......"

In the evening, the drunken Count left the tent, and in a moment there was a singing sound from his tent, and it was only in the middle of the night that it faded away.

The next morning, after a good night's rest, everyone woke up and set out on the last leg of the road.

And the nezumi are everywhere.

Annan dispatched fifty more water elementals to clear the nezumi ahead with the speed of the team, and the high castle built on the hills appeared in front of them.

At the same time, there are also rat people scattered throughout the vast plains and hilly areas.

"Too much ......"

The Chief Earl frowned. There are at least hundreds of thousands of nezumi scattered in the night...... There will only be more in the high city. They broke in only to be swallowed up by a tidal wave of rats.

"Lord Earl, it's too late for us to go back now."

Count Ulmit sought Annan's help: "Is there a way?" ”

"I can summon two epic mages to help, but at least give them a share."

"One is tens of thousands of gold coins......"

Even the legend couldn't refuse the money.

"But we can't contact the legend, and we can't trust the legend." Annan gave him the choice, "and both epics are their own people." ”

The Earl was still reluctant to give up his Kinnar: "Wait...... Let me think about it......"

At this time, when you turn around, you should be able to scavenge 20,000 or 30,000 gold coins from the towns on the road...... But dozens of times the inheritance lies in the city less than 30 miles ahead.

"If the fall of Solren High City had been led by the Elder Nezumi, the legacy would have been less than we thought." The Chief Mage said at this point.

They made a makeshift camp on the back of a low hill to make the Count of Ulmit think.

As a result, there was a turning point after Annan let the wind elemental scout: the wind element found a camp with human traces next to a lake.

There won't be survivors, survivors will just flee here. The wind elemental's continued scouting allowed them to determine the identity of the camp: it belonged to the Gold Diggers.

They also set their sights on the high city of Solren.

A rough estimate of the number of people in the Gold Nuggets camp was in the hundreds, much more than Annan had imagined.

"Gold diggers actually cooperate with each other?"

The chief mage replied to Annan: "They are just another kind of mercenary. Of course there will be cooperation and betrayal. ”

"Do they have a way to deal with the rat people in the city?"

"Your Excellency, King of the North, I'm afraid so." The Chief Mage said, "No one of the Gold Diggers knows about the Nezumi, and their gathering here shows that they have a solution." ”

"Where's the scavenger?"

"Including scavengers."

The scavengers are just the nezumi who clean up the town, but the gold diggers have been rummaging through the old dirt where the nezumi are raging in search of treasure.

"We can try to get in touch." Annan said.

"The Nuggets won't welcome us."

"We're all right if we're gold diggers too."

Olmedo wasn't here, otherwise she would have easily mingled with the Nuggets with her penchant for joining various organizations.

At this time, the rat people scattered in the plains and hills in the distance suddenly showed a strange movement. As if attracted by something, they turned into a moving gray line and gathered north, and even the rat people in the high city of Solren poured out.

Annan had all the elementals withdraw and observe the changes from behind the drum.

It didn't take long for the wind elemental to return with Lily.

"The cat saw them packing up."

Lily jumped into Annan's arms and said that the gold diggers were preparing to go.

The changes in the rat colony seem to have something to do with them.

"Looks like we don't have to deal with them anymore." Annan saw this as an opportunity, "We also went into the city. ”

"Now?"

Annan pointed to one of the soldiers in the musket team: "Do you know him?" ”

"We didn't have contact." The Chief Mage replied.

"So are the gold diggers."

(End of chapter)